when we spoke with sapd within the past hour, the officer wondered if the city's still had its gang tax force if that task force was still intact. a group of friends were celebrating one of their birthdays outside a house. one of them tells us two member, gang members, he believes, barged into the party and shot and killed his friend. a man in his 30s with a wife and child. he doesn't understand why his friend would be targeted, says he wasn't a gang-banger. described him as being too old for that kind of lifestyle. >> we were hanging out. there was no gang-bangers involved. there was nobody that gang-bangs here with no colors whatsoever. just outside barbecuing. all you hear is about three to four guys outside koog barbecue, run into the house. and you hear, shots fired! the guy who got shot dropped in the floor. >> i grew up around the corner from the homicide out in dobern. this is the worst spike in violence i've seen in the time that i've been living here. and growing up in that area, we were exposed to violence. but it's something i've never seen. >> reporter: about four hours ear